FREE sourcing support for qualified business buyers, with an eligible benefit of up to 3%. Eligibility applies to qualified business buyers and is confirmed after we review your product, quantity, destination, and sourcing requirements. For a DMLS 316L bracket nest, that review includes alloy, HIP scope, and US dock before any benefit is confirmed.
DESK FACTS
We do not publish a founding year, employee count, or annual powder tonnage because those figures are not in the brand record. The measured US search term custom metal 3d printing was observed on 11 May 2026 in the locked keyword file. Role statements stay limited to buyer-side coordination.
PROCESS TIMELINE
The buyer names the drawing letter, 316L (or the alloy actually on the print), and which faces are functional datums. We refuse to circulate a brief that still says "latest CAD" or that mixes DMLS and investment-cast geometry without a written alternate.
As-printed, HIP, heat treatment, machining, inspection, packing, and freight become separate lines. The as-built vs HIP density note is its own column. A single number that hides those lines is sent back.
Each candidate answers process ownership (DMLS versus lost-wax), powder reuse, documents, and exclusions. Unanswered items stay open. We do not fill them with industry averages or with another website's density table.
Quotes return on one Incoterm and one US destination. Optional budget and high-end / mid-range / economy preference sit beside the sheet. They are not a rating of the print house or the foundry.
EVIDENCE LIST
ISO 9001, AS9100, or ISO 13485 files named to the site that will print or atomize the 316L lot. A logo on a website is not the file.
Lot number, chemistry, PSD, and reuse count for the heat that will be used on the quoted nest.
FAI, CMM or scan method, as-built vs HIP density note, hardness method, and whether those reports are included or extra.
ITAR, dual-use, or ordinary commercial handling, written against the US destination on the RFQ.
If the requirement is ready enough to name revision, 316L quantity, US destination, and whether DMLS or investment-cast is allowed, send it. Factory identity, density, capacity, and timing stay unconfirmed until the factory writes them.
Send the desk a brief